Sentences with phrase «hedge against any of»

Corporate class funds offered an important hedge against all of those risks for non-registered account holders, through their tax efficiency.

Also, with different debts maturing at different times, you can hedge against some of the risks associated with interest rates.

Overall, energy stocks may not fully capture oil price moves since companies hedge against some of the volatility, and also make other decisions for shareholder value that may not have direct influence from the oil price.

Not exact matches

But long - term, the company clearly knows that it needs a hedge against the vicissitudes of the TV distribution market, and owning content is one way of doing that.

Investors often use gold as a hedge against inflation, but higher interest rates dent the appeal of gold, which earns nothing and costs money to store and insure.

Against a background of more volatile markets and worries that some of the biggest hedge fund managers are nursing losses this year, many in the audience focused on the smaller, better - performing investors like Oleg Nodelman.

Charney has spent most of 2015 lobbing lawsuits related to his dismissal against his former employer, its board members and the hedge fund that took it over after his departure.

Hedge fund managers have warned that Chinese authorities could soon retaliate against U.S. tariffs and vastly escalate a global trade war that has simmered for the last few of weeks.

David Ganek, whose hedge fund Level Global shut down in the wake of an insider trading investigation, said his lawsuit against prosecutors is about «transparency» and «accountability.»

Sohn is one of the most anticipated hedge fund events of the year, where managers volunteer their time and best investment ideas to raise money in the fight against childhood cancer.

Activist hedge funds are launching more campaigns against larger companies this year, according to ActivistMonitor, a division of research firm Acuris.

«When you see [this] kind of rolling action, it is likely a hedge against a portfolio of small cap stocks,» RiskReversal founder Dan Nathan said Wednesday on CNBC's «Fast Money.»

Hedge fund manager Jim Chanos of Kynikos Associates told CNBC that he is looking at a possible beat against Netflix and other entertainment content providers.

The U.S. Supreme Court is set to consider this week a closely watched insider trading case that could limit the ability of prosecutors to pursue such charges against hedge fund managers and other traders.

The best hedge against inflation is the US stock market since about 60 % of revenues of the S&P 500 comes from foreign countries.

They seem to have gotten turbocharged by a ruling in 2007 that permitted people — in practice, mainly hedge funds — to buy shares after a merger has been announced and for the express purpose of voting against it and then seeking an appraisal.

For investors, the real estate sector offers several benefits, including a potential hedge against inflation and a relatively stable source of income.

The four conglomerates originated in different sectors, but their underlying business model is the same: cultivate powerful allies in the Communist Party; use those relationships to win regulatory and property concessions; gather investment from friends, family and other proxies of party elites into a murky, unregulated private holding company; borrow heavily from state - owed banks and other sources to finance prodigious growth plans; invest as aggressively as possible in stock and property overseas as a hedge against slower growth in China and the risk of a weaker Chinese currency.

These include currency - hedged ETFs, triple - levered ETFs based on commodities, unconstrained bond funds with short positions betting against U.S. Treasurys, private equity funds, emerging market debt instruments, historically less - liquid bank loan funds, and all manner of actively managed strategies packaged in supposedly easy to buy and sell wrappers.

Perhaps most important, he's added a clause to his business plan — a hedge against lost business, not unlike planning for a certain level of bad accounts receivable.

Ackman, who runs hedge fund Pershing Square Capital Management LP, has been betting against Herbalife shares since 2012, claiming the company is a pyramid scheme — where new investors unwittingly fund the profits of older investors.

«It's the weaker dollar, it's the inflation focus and it's also to some extent the market is continuing to look for a hedge against a world that's becoming incredibly complacent with stocks at record highs,» said Ole Hansen, head of commodity strategy at Saxo Bank in Copenhagen.

Federal investigators are reportedly looking into possible manipulation of Herbalife's stock and have interviewed individuals hired by hedge - fund manager William Ackman, who has been running a campaign against the nutritional - products company for over two years.

«You need a hedge against everything to try to minimize the opportunity for a single point of failure.»

Elliott does not seem to share those qualms: On at least three occasions, according to both court testimony and the accounts of seven people who spoke with Fortune, children of people facing the hedge fund's attack have been pulled into the fray in some way, in an apparent bid to gain either information on or leverage against their parents.

A growing number of ETFs hedge against this currency risk, including iShares Currency Hedged MSCI United Kingdom (hewu), which tracks large - and mid-cap U.K. companies, and iShares Currency Hedged MSCI Spain (hewp), which focuses on large - cap companies.

«There's underlying demand for gold as a hedge against political uncertainties on both sides of the Atlantic,» said Ole Hanson, head of commodity strategy at Saxo Bank.

Sohn is the most widely anticipated hedge - fund event of the year, where managers volunteer their time and best investment ideas to raise money in the fight against childhood cancer.

Pecan growers and suppliers are hoping to sell U.S. consumers on the virtues of North America's only native nut as a hedge against a potential trade war with China, the pecan's largest export market.

When Comcast initially invested $ 200 million in BuzzFeed in 2015, through its broadcast subsidiary NBCUniversal, it wasn't clear exactly what the cable conglomerate was looking for from its investment in the digital - only startup, except perhaps a hedge against the disruption of television and other forms of traditional media.

If you follow this strategy, Betterment advises investing at least 30 percent more than the three to six months of expenses you would typically put in the emergency fund to hedge against market turmoil.

Wilmot runs through a bunch of investment strategies that might see renewed interest in light of these financial conditions, ranging from equity funds that offer some sort of hedge against volatility to big - data - driven quant funds.

Consider this conundrum in the gold market: The metal has traditionally been a good hedge against inflation, but it hasn't seen much demand lately even in the face of rising inflation fears.

But that volatility, as Ghosh likes to note, is the upside of the integrated nature of the company, which gives it a continued hedge against the differential in world oil prices through its downstream and midstream assets — on the midstream side, Husky operates a 2,000 - kilometre crude - oil pipeline system, and its downstream operations include upgrading and refining crude oil, and marketing gasoline, diesel, jet fuel, asphalt and ethanol in Canada and the United States.

A combination of Tesla and SolarCity will create a tightly integrated solar and battery combination that will provide grid - independent, renewable backup power today, and a hedge for customers against future changes to net metering.

U.S. hedge fund Sandell Asset Management said on Feb. 8 that it will vote against Tesco's takeover of wholesaler Booker unless the UK supermarket group raises its offer.

Hedge funds designed to protect against falling and volatile markets have made a strong pitch to investors: Trust us with your money, and we'll make lots of it for you when years of relatively smooth, positive stock returns inevitably end.

«Physical gold is insurance against another huge financial crisis, an inflation hedge, and a general diversifier from stocks,» writes Rob Marstrand of Ofwealth.com.

Factom will be using Tether as a hedging mechanism against Bitcoin's infamous volatility in the company's upcoming sale of its Factom software.

Investors hedging against a sharp fall in equity markets in the coming 12 weeks has also reached its highest level since the onset of the global financial crisis, the bank said.

To truly hedge your portfolio against all kinds of risk, a fully diversified precious metals allocation is your best bet.

Most investors, including myself, buy physical gold not to make a profit, but to hedge against inflation, stock market crashes, currency devaluation, and all other sorts of financial crises.

In 1989, he acquired $ 350 million of preferred stock in US Airways to protect the company against a hostile takeover from hedge fund manager Michael Steinhardt, reports Forbes.

While government bonds currently produce little in the way of income, government bonds have been providing a hedge against equity risk.

It has historically made sense to hedge against market fluctuations based on much less restrictive definitions of market conditions, but at present, the market is in a set of conditions that has almost invariably been followed by deep and abrupt losses, though often only after a further marginal advance over a small number of trading sessions.

For small - and medium - sized businesses though, hedging against rising fuel costs isn't even an option, says Jayson Myers, CEO of the Canadian Manufacturers and Exporters trade group.

The Times» foray into meal delivery is another example of how the publisher is looking for new ways to make money from its content, brand and journalists to hedge against the uncertain future of newspapers.

Last week, Ray Dalio, founder of Bridgewater Associates, the largest hedge fund in the world, said it was time for investors to put between 5 and 10 percent of their portfolio in gold as a precaution against global and domestic geopolitical risks.

A large part of the reason has been that bonds have provided an effective hedge against equity risk.

The Strategic Growth Fund remains fully hedged, with the same «staggered strike» position we had at the 2007 peak, which strengthens our defense against potential market losses by raising the strike prices of our defensive put options, at a cost of just over 1 % of assets in additional put premium (which is relatively inexpensive with the CBOE volatility index currently at about 17).